Artificial bait



(No Model.)

H. GOMSTOC K.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

No. 271,424. Patented Ja,11.30, 1883.

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HARRYA COMSTOOK, OF FULTON, NEW YORK.v

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,424, dated January 30, 1883.

Application tiled November 25, 1882. (No model.) i

T all w/Lom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY (JoMs'rocK, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Fulton, Oswego county,NeW York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Artiticial Bait, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to artificial bait-forv fishing purposes, and has for its object to provide au artificial insect or fish bait which shall have a natural and animated appearance l while being drawn through the water.

Heretofore spoon-baits have been adapted to revolve around a rod connected with the hook, and, as is well known, avariety ot'. artiicial iish and insects have been prduced for catching sh.

My improvement consists in producing the artiticial tish or insect with tins or wings, each having an independent and substantially axial rotation,.so that as the bait is drawn through the water its ns or wings shall, by their free 'and rapid rotation, give a highly animated appearance to the artiicial ish or insect, and thereby tempt the sh to take the bait.

In the drawings, Figure l represents my improved articia-l bait with its hooks. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ot' one of the rotary tins or wings. Fig. 3 is a transverse section 'taken through the bait on the line :c

A indicates the body of the bait, which may be that of a sh or insect, as preferred, and O C indicate the rotary tins or wings, one of which is located on each side of the body of the bait. In the present instance the bait is an artificial insect provided with rotary wings,

supported on the two arms of a rod, D, which is passed transversely through the body of the insect near its head, and then bent back into nearly U form, so as to form the two arms which project out from the body at acute angles thereto. A tube, Lis inserted in the body ot' the insect and middle portion ot' the rod,

tit-ted to turn in said tube, which forms a4 bearing for the rod and prevents wear of the body ofthe bait. The wings are made onthe principle of a propeller-blade, so that when they are drawn through the water they will readily turn about the rod on which they are loosely fitted. In the present instance each wing is composed of a metal or other plate shaped like an elongated heart, having its two halves made concavo-convex from end to end, or nearly so, with the concavities on opposite sides. Portions of this plate are turned up at its ends. to form ears or Vbearings c for the rod, which passes through said bearings, and suitable anti-friction stops, E, are fitted on the rods at the ends of the wing, so as to admit ofthe same Working freely. The hook or hooks F are connected with a rod, Gr, Which passes longitudinally through the body of the bait, andhas at its upper end an eye for connecting it with the line. The insector iish is free to turn aboutisaid rod, and, ifdesired, can have a limiting sliding movement thereon. The rod which carries the rotary wings or [ins is free to turn in its bearing in the body of the bait, so that the wings or blades can swing, and thus adjust themselves as theyare moved along in the water.

It preferred, the hooks H can be attached to ends otl rod D, projecting slightly beyond the outer larger ends of the tins or wings of the bait.

-By the above arrangement each wingis free to turn independently about the arm ou which it is supported, so that while the wings are capable of an independent substantially axial rotation, both are free to turn with the body ofthe bait around the rod G, to which the hook and line are attached. The bait will therefore have a highly anima-ted appearance While being drawn through the water, and thereby prove very attractive to the fish.

Having thus described my invention7 what I claim is- 1. An articial bait for fishing, consisting of an artilicial fish or insect having independently-rotating tins or wings, substantially as described.

2. An artiticial tish or insect having tins or wings supported to turn upon the arms ota rod extending out from'the sides ofthe insect or tish, substantially as described.

3. An artificial fish or insect provided with a rod passing transversely through its body,

In testimony whereof I havebereunto set my i'c hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. f

:md having its projecting ends bent back with tins or wings fitted to turn upon said arms,

substantially as described.

4. The combination, with n rod to which 5 the line and hook are connected, of an artiti- HARRY COMSTOOK.

cial fish or insect fitted to turn on said rod,

and provided with swinging and independ- \Vitnesses:

ently-rotary fins or wings, substantially as de- E. C. PFAFFLE,

scribed. T. S. MILLEN. 

